Farshid Yadollahi, Gonabadi dervish, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.

Omar Pirnia, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 6 years by Appeals.

Shamim Etehadi, Baha’i, sentenced to 5 years in prison.

Mehdi Koukhian sentenced to another year in prison.

Reformist student Farhad Fathi sentenced to 5 years suspended.

7 hangings in Rasht on last Tuesday.

University – Culture

Order to remove works of Makhmalbaf, who visited Israel, from Film Museum.

Prominent human rights activist and supporter of the democracy movement in Iran, Shahla Farjad, died of cancer 7 July 2013. She was an activist for Afghan emigrants and served as their doctor. She was member of the Mothers for Peace Movement, supporter of the Women’s Movement in Iran. She was a political prisoner in the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s worked as a physician in the UN High Council for Refugee Affairs.

Protests

3 days of protests at Tractor Sazi in Tabriz.

Steel workers of Kurdistan gathered in front of leader’s house.

Fillmmakers gathered in protest for reinstatement of the House of Cinema.

Iran abroad

Morteza Hosseini, member of the Majlis Cultural Committee attacked and beaten in Mecca

Great-Britain sells military equipment to Syria and Iran.

Iran frees Emiratis and Asian crew after two months.

Iran Economics

Foulad workers have not received three months’ wages.

Trade agreement signed with Armenia.

Milk price increases by 15%.

Iran Politics

MP Motaheri’s site has been taken down after he disclosed finding listening devices and hidden cameras in his office.

NSFPC ( National Security and Foreign Policy Committee) members to visit women’s wing at Evin Prison to investigate complaints.